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ArticleThe Clinical investigator1994

Myotonic dystrophy and limb girdle muscular dystrophy in one family.

R Schröder, S Beyenburg, J Weber, K Olek, S Zierz

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Article in The Clinical investigator, 1994. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

R SchröderNeurologische Universitätsklinik Bonn, Germany.
S Beyenburg
J Weber
K Olek
S Zierz
University Hospital Bonn · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A family is reported in which a 29-year-old woman showed the clinical features of myotonic dystrophy while her 26-year-old brother presented with the clinical picture of limb girdle syndrome. In the affected female, direct genetic testing for the specific myotonic dystrophy mutation on chromosome 19 revealed abnormal expansion of a repeat unit containing the three nucleotides cytosine, thymine, and guanine (CTG)-typical for myotonic dystrophy-while her diseased brother displayed two normal alleles. This supports the hypothesis of the extremely rare occurrence of two clinically and genetically different myopathies in one family. Genetic analysis of six other family members showed that the father of the diseased siblings as well as all of his three brothers and sisters had a pathological CTG repeat expansion, and that the other two family members tested had a normal allelic pattern. The number of CTG repeats in the diseased women was approximately tenfold higher than in her asymptomatic relatives who revealed an abnormal allelic pattern. The increase in CTG repeats with transmission to a subsequent generation in this family was paralleled by a dramatic increase in the severity of myotonic dystrophy.

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AdultAllelesChromosomes, Human, Pair 19FemaleHumansMaleMuscular DystrophiesMyotonic DystrophyPedigreePolymerase Chain ReactionRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid

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PMID8086779
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